Greek coastguards to testify as suspects in migrant shipwreck probe, sources say


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  • Thursday, 27 Jun 2024

FILE PHOTO: Protesters, some of them survivors of a deadly migrant shipwreck off southwestern Greece, hold a banner with photos of the missing during a demonstration marking a year from the shipwreck, in Athens Greece, June 14, 2024. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek coastguard officers will testify as suspects as part of a disciplinary investigation into their role in a deadly migrant shipwreck off Greece, three sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Hundreds are feared to have died when a vessel, monitored by the Greek coastguard for several hours, capsized and sank in international waters off the southwestern Greek coastal town of Pylos on June 14, 2023.

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